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Last week, in the uproar that followed, Marc Jacquet, Under Secretary for the Indo-China States, who had in the past slipped reports to Servan-Schreiber, resigned, and there was a shakeup in the French military high command (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week L'Express was out again-and its circulation shot up by 13,000-to 115,000-and is still rising. Said Editor Servan-Schreiber happily: "The government really did us the best turn they possibly could...
Neutralism v. Isolationism. In France, where many newspapers are helped by hidden government or party subsidies and many are corrupt, L'Express is a postwar journalistic oddity. Confident, alert Editor Servan-Schreiber got the weekly off to a fast start a year ago by printing in its second issue a parliamentary report on Indo-China that the shaky government had asked other papers not to print. L'Express grew steadily, now runs some of the leading writers in France. Editor Servan-Schreiber is a friendly critic of U.S. foreign policy, bridles at being called a "neutralist," and says...
...Servan-Schreiber, who speaks fluent English, has become one of France's outstanding political pundits. The son of a co-owner of Les Echos, Paris' oldest financial paper, Servan-Schreiber fled France during the war, trained as a pilot in the U.S., and flew with the Free French Air Force. His first political article, submitted to France's leading daily, Le Monde, caused so much comment that he went into journalism...
Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has some other working formulas of his own. Up every day at 4 a.m., he works for about four hours before leaving for his office. Promptly at 7 every evening, Health Enthusiast Servan-Schreiber ("We French eat too much and exercise too little") and his ten-man staff cross the Champs...
Between editing L'Express and writing an occasional piece for Le Monde, Servan-Schreiber finds time for outside writing, also broadcasts on the French radio and lectures for BBC. France is in deplorable condition politically, he argues volubly, and "inertia [could] lead the country slowly and painlessly into Communism." But the country, says dedicated, austere Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, "may still be saved by young men convinced of their mission, whose personal lives are austere and dedicated to work...